Conde Nast to Buy Online Tech Pub Backchannel

The Verge: Tech writer Steven Levy is returning to Condé Nast, the company announced Thursday. In 2014, Levy left Wired to found Backchannel, one of the first publications built on top of the Medium blogging platform. Now, less than two years after that announcement, Condé Nast has announced plans to purchase the publication and fold it into the Wired group.